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A Shropshire Lad
XL

INTO my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

--- A E Housman (1859-1936)

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i love simple poetry :D

An overdue comment----- heard shoes talking about how the awareness of blog audience influences the blog... so it's quite queasyfying to gush here about johnny, knowing he blog-surfs, but then this blog thus also makes one heckuva public-thank-you :

thanks johnny for ndp :) it was very nice! everyone has an own part he/she likes about the show, and for me i can vividly recall the fighter jets coming through the stadium! and the parachuters curving in, wow. and the part where you appeared on the screen is SO COOL! you looked very xiao1 sa3!!! haha before i start to appear gay, thanks for the discman today too!

heh i'm 18 precisely now! 18 and a day in 17 minutes.thanks people, for wonderfulwonderful greetings and gifts :) what a good day in a reminiscent sort of way.

looking for people who're interested in dvping cool reader-digest like jokes! haha the magazine actually pays a hundred buckaroos for each joke, so some of us are actually pouring money down the drain when we make our friends and relatives laugh and forget their woes and trouble..for free! we must commercialise all humor!